Sanjay Mishra & Deepak Dobriyal Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

The 2020s account for 60% of everything they made together. The 2000s belonged to Charas; the 2020s to Kaamyaab. Sanjay Mishra acted in every film; Deepak Dobriyal acted in all of them. Mostly Hindi, with 1 film in Hindi .

Partnership facts

• They first met on the sets of Charas (2004) because both were cast as sidekicks to the lead. Neither had a script in hand — the director handed them their lines on set each morning, forcing them to build their scenes together from scratch.
• In Kaamyaab (2020), Dobriyal played a director who keeps rejecting Mishra's character for auditions. Off-camera, Dobriyal would deliberately improvise harsh feedback to make Mishra's reactions more raw — Mishra later said those unscripted jabs gave the film its most painful, real moments.
• Between Charas and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, they didn't speak for nearly a decade. They reconnected only when a mutual friend forced them to have chai together during a film festival in 2014. Dobriyal later joked that their 11-year silence was 'the longest gap between two co-stars who never had a fight.'
• Dobriyal on working with Mishra in Kaamyaab: 'He doesn't act. He just sits there and lets the camera catch his life. I had to work twice as hard to keep up with a man who wasn't even trying.'
• Their shared screen time in Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015) was only 4 minutes — but those scenes were so deadpan that a fan-made YouTube supercut of 'Sanjay and Deepak's wasted talent' went viral, directly leading to Kaamyaab's casting. The director of Kaamyaab has said he found both actors through that video.